Collaborative Innovation Center of Novel Software Technology and Industrialization
The Collaborative Innovation Center of Novel Software Technology and Industrialization was established in December 2012. In April 2014, it was approved by the Educational Department of Jiangsu Province as a provincial-level collaborative innovation center in university and was given a four-year grant of 20 million yuan RMB. Focusing on meeting the major needs of Jiangsu’s software industry development, the center explores a system of collaborative innovation and research, develops long-term mechanisms of cooperation in production, education and research, and offers a public service platform that supports the promotion of innovation capacity of the software industry. The coordinated research focuses on the layout of forward-looking technology, key technology, and the enhancement of the quality of target products. It realizes open-ended aggregation of innovation resources, multi-discipline integration of talents cultivation, and multiple team collaboration and technological integration in product development. It strives to promote the innovation capacity of both universities and corporations and to push ahead with sustainable.
The center has integrated the best resources from universities and corporations in Jiangsu Province, including Nanjing University, Southeast University, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Soochow University, Nanjing Research Institute of Electronic Engineering (ENRIEE), Linkage Group Corporation, NARI Technology Co., Ltd., Nanjing LES Information Technology Co., Ltd. Focus Technology Co., Ltd., and Datcent Technology Co., Ltd. The center has integrated the platforms of State Key Laboratories, Chinese National Engineering Research Center, the Ministry-of-Education Key Laboratories, Key Laboratories of Jiangsu Province and Key Laboratories of Science and Technology for National Defense. It is now supporting over 40 enterprises, including software enterprises ranking among the top 10 in China, key state software enterprises, key high-tech enterprises of the National Torch Program and key enterprises in software bases supported by the National Torch Program.
The center has made achievements in its exploration of a number of important issues such as how to overcome the barriers between “science and technology,” between “technology and industry” and between “crossover and collaboration,” how to realize the integration of “research, talents and disciplines” as well as “technology, talents and products,” and how to implement the development mode of “dual structure of disciplinary development,” “one school, two systems” and “multiple cultivating modes.” With the work of the center, six new “enterprise research institutes” came into being whereby universities work closely with enterprises, forming a network of collaborative innovation, combining core technology of university institutes with product development, upgrading and application by software enterprises and application units.
The center has undertaken over 200 projects commissioned by the state and enterprises, published over 200 high-quality academic papers, and won 2 national-level and 11 provincial- and ministerial-level science and technology awards. It has presided 17 national and international academic conferences, held nearly 100 academic industrial forums, applied for over 400 patents for invention and over 300 software copyrights and invented over 10 new and high-tech products. It also provides consultancy services on information construction strategies and planning for provincial and municipal governments and for electric power and telecom industries, bringing significant economic and social benefits.
